The Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches

The Cisco Catalyst 2960 Switches is a family of fixed-configuration, standalone, intelligent Ethernet devices with Power over Ethernet (PoE) that provides desktop Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. The Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches, with its fast speed, simple configuration and maintenance features, is much needed by small to medium enterprises in the current evolving business environment. The Cisco Catalyst 2960 Switches has switching ability between devices that allows employees within an enterprise to switch between videoconferences to phone calls and work files smoothly and effortlessly. The Cisco’s Catalyst 2960 Series Switches also supports encryption to deter any unauthorized users from accessing an organization’s network and comes with advanced security features to a network such as SSH protocol and port security.

The Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches

The Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches is a standalone fixed-configuration switches that bring fast speed Ethernet switching to a business and has the following features:

Smart install

Auto SmartPorts and Auto QoS

Switching capacity is 17.6 Gbps

Full line rate for all 48 ports

1G/10G uplinks: 2x1G or 4x1G

PoE up to 370w

However, the Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches lacks many of the mobility, advanced security, energy efficiency features. Nevertheless, there are a large range of software options that could further enhance the features of this series of switches, including simplified operation and security.

The Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switches

The 2960-S Series Switches comes with an added stacking bandwidth ability. With the 2960-S, enterprises also have access to Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+), an improved version of PoE.

The 2960-S Series Switches has the following features:

Switching capacity 176 Gbps

1G/10G uplinks: 2x1G or 4x1G

Stacking bandwidth: 40 Gbps 4 members

PoE/PoE+ up to 740W

IPv6 ready

Cisco TrustSec with SXP3

Flexible 802.1x authentication

Gigabit downlinks,

IPv6 First Hop Security

Auto SmartPorts and Auto QoS

Cross-stack QoS

Smart install

Gigabit downlinks

Full line rate for all 48 ports

The Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series Switches

The 2960-X Series Switches comes with the increase in switching capacity as compared to the 2960 and 2960-S Series. The cost of the 2960-X Series Switches is similar to other models and it comes with improvement in performance and smarter features such as advanced security and energy efficiency.

The 2960-X Series Switches features consist of:

Switching capacity: 216 Gbps

Gigabit downlinks

Full line rate for all 48 ports

1G/10G uplinks: 2x1G or 4x1G

Stacking bandwidth 80 Gbps 8 members

PoE/PoE+ up to 740W

IPv6 ready

Cisco TrustSec with SXP3

Flexible 802.1x authentication

IPv6 First Hop Security

Smart install

Auto SmartPorts and Auto QoS

Cross-stack QoS

SDN/programmability

Cisco onePK ready

Switch hibernation and Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)

The Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR Series Switches

The 2960-XR Series Switches is a further upgrade version of the Cisco 2960 series Switches that has added performance of layer 3 dynamic routing while retaining similar features to the Cisco 2960-X Series Switches.

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